Introducing Technology-Based Music Instruction

This chapter lays the groundwork for the theoretical and practical approaches described in the remainder of the book. It includes a “topographical” model for understanding the depth of teachers’ integration of technology into their teaching and outlines the major concerns that teachers often bring to this type of instruction. The chapter introduces technology-based music instruction (TBMI)—an approach to teaching in which technology is the major medium by which music concepts and skills are introduced, reinforced, and assessed, and in which students are directly engaged with technology rather than simply with the products of technology work that the teacher has prepared. It differentiates between technology-based music instruction (TBMI) and other types of music teaching, establishes the goals of TBMI, and the purposes of the book.